Aidan63

not quite

like this please

it's actually more functional than the board index menu top left as all the sub-forums are listed, but obviously its a big scrollable drop down menu

36 minutes ago, chris_b said:

Has anyone put flats on their Sandberg?

 

If so, which flats did you use.

I tried a set of Status flats on my Lionel VS4 fretless, they were awful, lifeless, toneless and quiet, I've put the LaBella tapewounds it came to me with back on, I do have a set of Chromes to try. I liked D'Addario half rounds much more than the Status flats. Passive bass with Sandberg pickup.

take a look at Driftwood guitars yt channel, they use cnc for making the basic necks and other things, they have a clever heel joint, the dogbone, which is cnc, they make acoustics and also a tele solid body which they developed the neck to be cnc made

Most guitars that are mass produced use cnc for the basic cutting and shaping, can be seen in many yt videos of factory tours, Keisel is pretty open about what they do, I think Warwick have shown their set up, even Gibson now use cnc

Daisy Tempest, Tempest guitars, she is on all the socials @daisy_tempest and has a YT channel

surely it depends on neck width and profile and actual spring spacing, the nut could be shortened if it's just a tad wider in profile or swapped for a bone one that is cut to suit the players preference - Leo designed the instruments to be serviceable

15 hours ago, SamIAm said:

Your build has inspired me to look again into following suit, but for me a short scale 5er headless would be my goal ... finding a suitable pre-built neck is proving difficult! Crafting one from wood with frets and truss is beyond my skills and having one made for me (even if just the carcess with me doing the finish) beyond my budget. I've seen some who crafting one from an aluminium t-truss and 3D printed parts, but this approach does not allow for adjustment of relief.

 

Sam x

one of the alibaba boys will be able to make you a cheap short scale 5 string neck , or try making friends with Daisy, she might be up for broadening her portfolio, making just necks a lot easier and quicker than making acoustics and she's in a shared workspace place where there might be a cnc woodworker or she might know one, and she could make a YT video or two and it all snowball.....

I guess its a case of what one is used to, club80-90 was the first forum I joined back in 2002, the layout was good (ie it was a big upgrade on the barely gui stuff that came before) and logical and has remained pretty much the same with slight incremental improvements, its a bit of a dinosaur being on Ezboard platform but we couldn't afford Invision ( I did suggest it when the last upgrade was done having seen this) as it's a free, occasional donations requested forum, very much of its own ethos.

I don't use the next unread thread question button, I like to see the title of the threads, and use the hover preview to see if I want to read on....

The other forum I spend most of my online life on, built on the Ezboard platform has the forum control at the top, where you navigate between sections, like a normal windows layout just as on here, BUT also has a drop down menu box bottom right of the page so when you have scrolled to the bottom of a page when scanning a section, or imprtantly when reading a thread you can immediately navigate to another section from there without having to scroll back up to the top of the page as we do on here, it's a really good ergonomic design. Yes I know you can use back button, but that isn't always where you want to go.

I use a pc and mouse, but if I was on a phone constantly having to scroll up to get to change sections or constantly going back it would really discourage me from browsing the forum - its part of the reason I don't use a phone for internet (screen size and interface method being main ones) except in an emergency away from my desk situation, navigating websites isn't as easy, just blindly scrolling trying to find the correct thing to progress is a frustrating waste of time. I know most people have moved to doing everything on a phone, or on a tablet like device, but I am happy doing it 90s style.

On the other forum I use I log straight into main menu, where I can see a brief overall view of what's new, go to the first section that catches my eye, and after that I go through all the sections I check in, read, post, and move on without ever coming back to the home page main menu.

Thanks for looking.

@lee650

31" scale, looks interesting, but no details like string spacing, nut width, weight, availability........I like Alan's pickups, and he seems to have some good shops in China making instruments with decent QC

I bought a couple of pairs of Schaller strap lock buttons from Dave, nice price, easy transaction, top seller, many thanks

Karen Young and Michel Donato ?

LaBella low tension flats are available in medium scale; there may be others

But you have had work done on it after buying it ? Was this approved by the vendor, or done by the vendor ?

I just fitted some medium scale tapewounds to a CV FSR Mustang, all bar the E string are on the posts on the silks with the silks finishing roughly level with the string tree button, the E string is nearly 1 wind on the post beyond the silks.

afaik Fender don't make a Mustang specific string and it seems like they fit long scale strings cut to length from the factory, certainly on the Squiers

just get a set of covers, work to those dimensions and fit the pickups inside the covers - probably best to use the covers with no pole piece holes like these then you can swap pickups inside the covers to your heart's content should you chose

Ebay link

And this months Guitar Anatomy build winner is

11 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

An ant writes: I don't think there is any sonic advantage to either method - none of my basses have pickguards and the pickups all work fine, OTOH Precisions are well thought of for some reason and hanging the pickup off the pickguard doesn't seem to harm their sound. Have you considered a sliding pickup, a la Gibson Grabber or Westone Rail? Perhaps run a length of 2020 Al extrusion up each side with T-nuts for the pickup to secure to and star knob bolts to allow easy moving and securing in position.

I think you mean Mustang not Precision bass, PB has the pickups sat on foam with height adjusted by wood screw into body, the foam is pushing the pickup away from the back of the body, the screw is pushing the pickup cover, and hence the pickup, down towards the body. Mustang bass the pickups are hung from the pickguard with springs (or rubber tubing) over the machine screws between the back of the guard and the top of the pick up cover so by adjusting the length of the machine screw you adjust the height of the pickup relative to the pick guard.

Surely as you are a private individual you just give them your National Insurance number - they now have to collect data and share it with HMRC, if you sell more goods than the threshold, and make a profit it has to be declared, one of the low hanging fruit HMRC have decided to tighten up on on behalf of the government in order to maximise tax take without being seen to be raising taxes

Don't cancel the sale, just let the buyer know you are having to resolve this with reverb first before it all can complete, they should be patient

is it routed under the pickguard for a neck pickup ? 

@lee650

cutting fluid saves your tools from wearing out prematurely, and can make cheap tools (aren't they all now) actually useable - damp swarf is also less mobile so you get fewer bits in your clothes etc...pricking you, or being spread around the house, in your, the kids, or the pets skin

I'm sure Jack Bruce gave as good as he got dealing with his d1ck of a drummer when the latter was drunk or hungover (ie most of the time)

is it residue or is it where maybe solder was spilt and removed but has when hot changed the moleular structure of the plastic due to heat and flux?

if rubbing alcohol didn't touch it it is probably there for good

Looking forward to the tone experiments with different material reinforcement strips 🙃